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Wow, U.S. social media is suffering a pandemic of nationalism just in time for a celebration of a declaration of the crimes and abuses of King George, a laundry list of horrors that pale beside the accomplishments of any recent U.S. president — the quaint abuses of his royal highness of the blue piss who in reality was more progressive and less tyrannical than your average 21st century prime minister, but who was preventing the expansion of the ethnic …

There is a technology that will become ubiquitous in everyday life and completely transform our world, our technological capabilities, and the way information is transferred. And no, it’s not artificial intelligence. It’s actually 6G technology.

You wouldn’t be crazy for thinking AI will be the defining technology that affects your life over the next few years. It dominates the news and, frankly, has become the foundation of much of the American economy. But despite all the hype, we’re never given a clear answer as to what AGI will actually look …

Institutions do not invent harm; they inherit it. What begins in households eventually becomes the logic of nations. The emotional habits learned in private rooms — silence, avoidance, domination, fear — are scaled into public systems that shape millions of lives.

Institutions rarely recognize themselves as violent. They believe they are maintaining order, enforcing standards, or protecting the public. But systems, like families, can normalize harm so thoroughly that it becomes invisible to those who administer it.
Bureaucratic Violence
Modern institutions often inflict harm through routine. A form not processed. A medication not approved. A border not opened. A complaint not investigated. The …

As the Trump administration and the U.S. Congress continues to ramp up rhetoric of “China is our enemy,” 2026 is the 30th year that the United States has organized the largest naval war practice in the world, called Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC). For 37 days from June 24 through July 31, the RIMPAC war “games” will be held in the waters off the state of Hawaii.
This year 31 countries have sent naval, air and land military forces to Hawaii for RIMPAC.

50% of the participating countries are …

Why does the Epstein class do what they do?

Federal judge Grants Katie Phang’s motion for preliminary injunction, ordering Todd Blanche to produce on or before July 2nd specific unredacted documents from the Epstein Files, including FBI notes from 4 interviews of a woman who alleges she was sexually and physically abused by Felon Trump when she was just 13 years old. Katie walks through the details of the damning court order and explains what’s next.

The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resemble a casino rather than a priestly haven of solemn judgment. It’s the justice of the punt, the throw of the dice, not the fairness of judicial deliberation, that prevails. That, at least, has been the prevailing view of Richard Ingrams, a co-founder of Britain’s rapier satirical publication Private Eye.

Since the decision by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to ban Palestine Action in 2025, some 3,000 people have been arrested for doing such unthreatening things as holding placards with the following words: …

The downfall of preying upon Earthlings’ fear of the presence of extraterrestrials.

There is nothing more common than to confound the terms of the American Revolution with those of the late American war. The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed.”   1787, Benjamin Rush
— the beginning of the book, Citizen Tom Paine, by Howard Fast, 1943

The writings below are primarily from a column I published on July 5, 2020. It was a review of the book, Citizen Tom Paine. I am writing this updated version of it again now …

The obsession, one verging on pathological, with political parties is producing its share of symptoms. These include, amongst others, cynicism, a general loathing by the electorate, a suspicion about a lack of independence among its parliamentary members, and the feeling that these machine types cannot be trusted and estranged. The independent representative is an antidote to this, a breath of the crispest, freshest air. Why, then, form a party of independents, thereby ceasing to be independent and forfeiting your very strength?

Well-meaning and well-intended, Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender, two formidable independent parliamentarians known in Australian politics as the “teals”, have …

A written interview with China Social Science Today, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Here is the Chinese version of May 29, 2026.
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Subject: An interview on the topic of “research productivity” from Chinese Social Sciences Today

INTRODUCTION
I served as the director of the Lund University Peace Research Institute, LUPRI, from 1983 to 1989. Then the social science faculty decided to close it down, together with a series of other studies, including environmental studies and human rights studies. The astonishing reason …

As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that could seriously impinge on our financial independence.
The Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act, H.R. 4766, is slated to make privately issued stablecoins a major component of the U.S. monetary system. Supporters see stablecoins as a way to strengthen the dollar’s global role while creating a vast new market for U.S. Treasury securities. Critics see the rise of programmable private money that can be monitored, frozen, …

We live in a time saturated with negative energy. Accidents dominate headlines, bad news is good news, and social media are full of outrage and empty of public education. Public debate has become a theatre of suspicion: one flaw is enough to condemn an entire achievement, one misstep enough to erase a lifetime of work. Commentators compete to predict catastrophe, and geopolitics and war talk of have disappeared every mention of peace.

It has become easier to do criticism and destroy than to appreciate, easier to promote fear than understanding, …

Chen Chieh-jen (Taiwan, China), Factory, 2003.
United States military bases are everywhere in the world: the US maintains some 750 to 800 military bases in roughly eighty countries or areas. Taiwan, China, is just one of them. The US military base in Taiwan was formally closed in 1979, though arms sales have continued ever since. But what receives far less scrutiny is ideological control. In Taiwan, the US did not only build bases – it built a systematic apparatus of ideological domination, one that has proved even more durable than …

Every society begins in a household. Before a child encounters a nation, a school, a doctrine, or a law, they encounter a family. The household is the first government a human being meets. It is the earliest site where power is exercised, where silence is taught, where truth is negotiated, and where harm can take on the shape of ritual long before anyone recognizes it as such.

Domestic harm rarely begins with deliberate cruelty. It begins with memory. A parent raised in fear may raise their child in fear—not out of malice, but out of inheritance. A child who grows up …